nettime The Dean campaign and the Internet
Nettimers: Howard Dean , by the current looks of things, has done something amazing in American political history . Without being President or Vice President he apparently has sewn up a major-party nomination before the start of the election year. Things could come unglued, and part of the earliness of his success may simply result from campaigning starting earlier and earlier in successive election cycles. Still, considering Dean's having come out of nowhere (well, Vermont) much of his success seems to be based on his highly sophisticated use of the Internet: as an organizing tool; for building support; as an extremely successful means of fundraising; and to hold his supporters together. Further, as the New York Times Magazine ( http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/07/magazine/07DEAN.html ) points out, his campaign has a sort of technological coordinator who has volunteers writing new kinds of software for new modes of Internet connection. This has apparently helped him develop a far more flexible, complete and complex organization in early primary states than any predecessor or competitor. For non-Americans, I should add that the primary system as it now exists is extremely weird, unrepresentative, and dominated by a handful of small states. It is generally thought that if one candidate wins both the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary, this candidate is essentially guaranteed nomination. However, a front-runner who somehow does not do as well as expected, especially in New Hampshire, can sometimes be viewed as the loser even if actually ahead in the vote there. The guess is though that Dean's support is so much stronger and deeper in both places than anyone else's that such a turn around is quite unlikely. He also seems to be ahead among Democrats in South Carolina, even topping the charismatic Senator Edwards from neighboring North Carolina. I bring all this up in the hopes that nettimers will discuss this model of politics via the Internet and what it might portend/teach. -- Best, Michael Michael H. Goldhaber # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and info nettime-l in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
nettime WSIS security hacked and exposed
A group of hackers has succeed in entering unauthorized in the precinct where the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) is being celebrated, thus demonstrating and ridiculing the rudimentary security used to control access to the delegates and other participants and invitees. The system consists of a plastic card containing a chip able to transmit the personal identifier as well as the location of the participant in the precinct., thanks to some sensors of presence that can be mounted anywhere: softdrink selling machines, conference rooms, entries and exitsÂ… in this way the system cann detect where each individual person is at any moment, in which sessions s/he took part, what contacts were made, with whom time was passedÂ…. This system not only violates the laws protecting data, since the participants have not been informed of the existence of this database, nor of the possible ways in which these data can be stored and at a later stage processed without their permission. But the most interesting is that this advanced security system has managed to become vulnerable and neutralized, which brings up the question not only its legality, but also its effectivity when controlling accesses. You may find pictures of the non-registered people in the conference at this web site: http://www.nodo50.org/wsis/pictures/http://www.nodo50.org/wsis/pictures/ more on: http://galiza.indymedia.org/gz/2003/12/2234.shtmlhttp://galiza.indymedia.org/gz/2003/12/2234.shtml # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and info nettime-l in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
nettime The Dean campaign and the Internet
Michael H. Goldhaber has this to say concerning Dean and the Internet I bring all this up in the hopes that nettimers will discuss this model of politics via the Internet and what it might portend/teach. What is really astonishing is how much money the Dean has raised over the Web. However, I still have yet to receive anything via the Internet asking for a donation, and I'm on a million mailers. What also amazes me is that Dean is no better a public speaker than Bush, yet he remains the Democratic front-runner. I would just hate to see the Internet create the same political environment as television advertising - It reaches out to groups who are more or less uninformed of the issues and vulnerable at every turn. Mitch Pellecchia FusedOnline.com # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and info nettime-l in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
